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The market is in a curious, contradictory state.Going by Chart-Track numbers, the UK boxed market has just had its highest-grossing weekend ever, but not by selling the most games. More games were sold in the comparable 2010 week than the last. So what’s going on? Games are doing better than …
Read More »London Games Conference – miss anything?
Develop and MCV offer a recap of the key stories from last night's event
Read More »London Games Conference: Did you miss anything?
Yesterday’s London Games Conference 2011 entertained and informed executives from across all levels of the games industry – here’s our recap. People traveled from around the world for the event, which was held at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. Both MCV and Develop were on hand to report …
Read More »OnLive challenges studios to ‘blow our minds’
OnLive wants developers to ‘blow their minds’ and create content built specifically for cloud gaming. At London Games Conference today, OnLive CTO Tom Paquin used his experience at Netscape as an example. He said Netscape asked consumers what they wanted and that they all asked for news, sport and weather. …
Read More »‘Expect 600m connected devices by 2014’
By 2014 there will be over 600m connected devices able to play browser games in the US and Western Europe, says Nick Parker. These includePCs, tablets, TVs, Blu-ray players and set-top boxes. That’s on top of 225m smart phones,according to the Parker Consulting analyst, who was speaking at the 2011 …
Read More »New Xbox Live user every two seconds
LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE 2011: Influential games portal has 35 million users worldwide
Read More »PopCap reveals how to fail at mobile gaming
At London Games Conference today, PopCap senior designer David Bishop listed ten ways to fail at mobile gaming. 1: Blank Android. "Don’t publish on Android. It is a complete waste of time," he said. "And absolutely don’t bother with Kindle Fire. Nobody will buy it." 2: Ignore Facebook.Nobody does anything …
Read More »Miniclip: Browser games approaching ‘console quality’
Miniclip’s senior producer Jamie Cason says online browser games are nearing the level of quality associated with console titles. The online games portal spoke highly of its Dogfight Squadron game. Cason told attendees at the 2011 London Games Conference: These browser games – like Dogfight Squadron – are approaching console …
Read More »Sega: Digital could overtake retail by 2015
Sega’s UK and digital boss John Clark predicts that the digital games market will match or even surpass boxed games in terms of revenue by 2015. Speaking at London Games Conference today, Clark says that although we are seeing a shift from the packaged goods business to digital business, digital …
Read More »Handhelds are doomed, industry survey finds
LONDON GAMES CONFERENCE 2011: Dark days ahead, according to live industry vote
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